So, I promised news about Cornell..let’s see.. some random scratches…

Cornell is the university of Ithaca, member of the Ivy League. It’s a private university, but it was founded in the late XIX century by Ezra Cornell, who wanted a university for everyone, male and female, rich and less. You have to think that, eg, universities like Standford of Princeton were reserved to man until the 60s! (1960..)

It is built up on a hill, around 300 meters above the Cayuga Lake, which is one of the so-called “fingers lakes”; they are a bunch af narrow lakes created by glacial era ages ago.

but I live close to the campus edge, so in the morning it’s quite easy to walk toward the campus and reach the Space Science Building. I just have to walk a bridge, go up the stairs in the wood, greeting the squirrels in the grass…seems easy..I do not want to think how should be to do that in winter, when it’s -20 C, the stairs are frozen, the wind blows strong from the lake…amazing!

But since I am here now, when every thing is closed and the campus is almost empty, I can at least enjoy the green ivy on the buildings, the stadium at the sunset..and get lost, of course! in the maps I show the loop I was able to do trying to reach home…I can only say that was my second day..Is it enough as excuse?

Here is the whole campus map.

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Plus, now I am starting to interact with people

last saturday I went to Martha and Riccardo’s place. They live 300 meters above the campus, so almost in the mountain, in the middle of the wood; Martha cannot let the plats grow because deers eat them!

So, we were invited at dinner, followed by the vision of an old back-and-white movie, as tradition. I was scared, and I was right. If now it is not so difficult for me to get the general idea from an American movies, was instead impossible to understand more than half of what Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart said! weren’t old actors supposed to study a lot to speak well? Crap…

PS: At the end we (they) decided to see “A Philadelphia Story”…